Life Drawing
Balkis, Queen of Sheba Fragment of a Persian miniature
Boundy School, (India), After the Bath
Lady’s Toilet Tomb in Thebes (Egypt)
Statue from the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi (Greece) Archaic era of Greek art
Archaic funerary statue and Apoxyomenos by Lysippus
Venus de Milos
Golden Section
Eastern front of the Parthenon
Leonardo da Vinci, The Vitruvian Man (Uomo Vitruviano)
Albrecht Durer, The Screen Draftsman, 1523, woodcut
Kathe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait with Pencil, 1933, charcoal on brown laid paper, 18 3/4” x 25”
Gesture
In the first five seconds, you have the entire body down on the paper!
Left: Auguste Rodin, Lightly Draped Dancing female Nude, 1900 Right: John Singer Sargent, Sketch of a Spanish Dancer, 1879
Robert Arneson, Blink Duck, 1982, acrylic and oilstick on paper, 53” x 42” expanded or sustained gesture drawing
Kuniyoshi Sketch for Kakemono-e of Tokiwa Gozen Ink on paper 9 7/8” x 22 7/16”
Contour
Richard Diebenkorn, Seated Woman, 1966, 23.5” x 19.5”, charcoal
Egon Schiele Crouching Nude - front view, 1918 black chalk 18 3/4” x 12 1/2”
Elizabeth Layton, Self-portrait: Her Strength is in Her Principles,1982, colored pencil and crayon on paper, 30” x 22” contour lines
Contour lines
Blind contour
Continuous line
Gaston Lachaise, Seated female Nude with Uplifted Leg, 1930-34, pen with blue-black ink and brown ink over pencil AND Seated Woman with Foot Raised, 1933-35, pencil
Rembrandt, Nude Woman with a Snake (7 heads high) Alberto Giacometti, Standing Woman, (10 heads high)
Edward Hopper, Standing Nude, (7 1/2 heads high) William Beckman, Study for Diana IV, (8 heads high)
Albrecht Durer, Nude Woman with Staff, 11 3/8” x 7 5/8”
Luca Cambiaso, The Crucifixion, after 1570, pen, brown ink, and wash, 21.4 x 29.5 cm.
Kara Walker, Untitled, 1996, cut paper, watercolor and graphite, 69 Kara Walker, Untitled, 1996, cut paper, watercolor and graphite, 69.5” x 66”
Cross-contour lines